Practice Greenhealth

Events

Introduction to sustainability governance

Date range
September 19, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Learn all about the basics of sustainability governance, including core documents, structures, staffing, stakeholders, resourcing, and key processes, such as using stakeholder mapping to inform sustainability program structures and strategies to build trust with stakeholders from a system-level perspective.

Introduction to data & goal setting

Date range
September 12, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
Measurement is one of the keys to management, and data empowers leaders to make decisions based on facts, trends, and statistics. This session covered goal setting, data governance, and developing baseline data. **Counts toward the Accelerating Health Care Sustainability series certificate of completion.

Leveraging hospital food purchasing to support local economies

Date range
August 7, 2024, 1 pm ET (10 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description
This webinar introduces you to Practice Greenhealth’s local and equitable food purchasing guidance and resources. Hackensack Meridian Health shared how they applied our guidance and the resulting impacts experienced by their community collaborator The CommonMarket.

Quickstart tutorial: Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator 2.0

Date range
July 31, 2024, 2 pm ET (11 am PT)
partners-exclusive
Description

Join our expert Keith Edgerton for a 75-minute tutorial on the calculator's new features. Bring your questions, and learn how your organization can benefit from these improvements.

 

Cardinal Health Solution Session: Implementing effective ESG strategies in health care

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
Learn how to develop and implement effective ESG strategies in the health care setting, including evolving regulatory and market pressures, how to prioritize ESG initiatives to maximize impact, building internal support, smarter procurement practices, and how your organization can utilize reprocessing to reduce its environmental impact and save money.

Generating clean energy & cost savings through community solar

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
Representatives from EPA and Boston Medical Center share exciting stories and strategies about how to use community solar programs to create clean energy while reducing utility costs for health care facilities and community members.

Funding & financing mechanisms for decarbonization projects

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
Listen to stories about how two health systems have tackled the challenges associated with financing decarbonization for buildings.

Attracting, retaining & engaging staff through sustainability culture

Date range
May 23, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
See how strategic staff recruitment and engagement models at three academic medical centers attract and retain top talent, address resource gaps, and promote a sustainable culture.

Building effective sustainability governance - A tale of 3 hospitals

Date range
May 22, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
Hear from sustainability leaders from three hospitals as they share insights from their sustainability journeys on how to engage and manage stakeholder expectations, build momentum, increase program visibility, and create effective governance structures.

Lessons from federal health system sustainability successes

Date range
May 22, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
Hear from federal health system experts as they share lessons from their work to advance decarbonization and resilience efforts through the Federal Health Systems Learning Network.

Sustainability: An emerging dimension of clinical decision making

Date range
May 22, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
Through interactive cases, hear how clinicians’ day-to-day decisions drive health care’s environmental impact and how decisions made early in clinical care planning can mitigate environmental harms.

Tackling the plastic crisis Identifying innovative clinical solutions

Date range
May 22, 2024
partners-exclusive
Description
Discover the staggering health impacts of health care plastic pollution, and hear clinical solutions to reduce your reliance on medical plastics.

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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the health care value chain.